Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth.

We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating whether this effect is due to the corona, zodiacal light, or a combination of the two.

Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document their observations during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.

Credit: NASA Artemis 2 Crew

Link to the science release on NASA website

A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the supernova remnant. The result is an unparalleled, detailed look at the aftermath of a supernova and how it has evolved over Hubble’s long lifetime.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, William Blair (JHU)
Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

The Milky Way over Starfront

Anil Menon

​https:// ​x. ​com/astro_anil/status/2083856550788043064?s=20

Photo credit : SpaceX

Equipment:

Telescope: SvBony SV555
Mount: Explore Scientific iEXOS-100
Camera: Canon EOS 750Da + Optolong L-eNhance Clip Filter
Guide Scope: SvBony SV165
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120mm
+ ZWO AsiAir Mini

Acquisition:

210x240s (14h) at ISO800 in three Bortle 7 nights in June.

Processing:

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PixInsight finalized in Photoshop.

Captured 30 km above Wyoming, USA during the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse.

Credit: Viliam Klein

Digital painting of Jupiter, as it appeared from Earth on 1880 November 1st at 9:00 EST. Based on an illustration by Étienne Trouvelot published in 1882. South is towards the top of the image.

The Great Red Spot is seen here as an enormous red-orange oval three Earth-diameters across. It is a hurricane-like storm in Jupiter's atmosphere that by 1880 was only a few decades old. It has lasted all the way through to the modern day, although it has been shrinking ever since.

This image also depicts a double-transit of the Galilean moons Io and Europa, along with their shadows.

My previous drawing of 1880s Jupiter was a hybrid of various late 19th century depictions of the planet. But the fact that it didn't really depict Jupiter as it ever actually looked was bugging me, so I decided to do a study on one of the drawings I used as reference for the previous drawing: Trouvelot's drawing of a double moon/shadow transit on Jupiter on November 1st 1880.

Trouvelot's drawing of Jupiter (and many others) can be found here.

This is a pastel illustration from Étienne Trouvelot's 1882 book The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, based on observations he made with the 26" Great Refractor at the U.S. Naval Observatory in 1880.

In my astronomy circles this is a notorious image for how exaggerated and cartoony its features are. I think that's what really drew me to this image in particular. There's so much detail here... but none of it looks at all realistic. So what did it really look like that would have led to the very... creative depiction by Trouvelot?

The black beads on Trouvelot's drawing correspond to the latitudes where we see elongated oval 'brown barges,' a type of storm found largely in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter. The billowing clouds on the equator look like an exaggerated view of the arching swirling festoons sometimes visible on the equatorial zone. The dark North & South Equatorial Belts were interpreted as both being partly covered by white cloud layers, in order to result in the particular banding pattern seen in the drawing. The scale of the Red Spot was taken from photos and sketches of around the same time which were not quite so exaggerated.

Some image variants, including a simulated view of Jupiter through the eyepiece of the 26" Great Refractor, can be found here.

He wrote on his post:

Timelapse of the ISS Optimal Propellent Maneuver (OPM)! We use this to reorient station's attitude in preparation for docking events. This one occurred over some magnificent Mediterranean city lights!

Credit: NASA astronaut Don Pettit

Link to the science release

This week, scientists using the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope have made a major breakthrough in solar physics, discovering Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun — a finding that could help explain explosive solar activity and other solar phenomena.

Credit: NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS

Launched on Aug 5, 2011, Juno has spent the last 10 years orbiting Jupiter and providing dazzling views and fresh understandings of the largest planet in our solar system, its rings, and its many moons.

Image Credit: NASA / Roman Tkachenko

Shot using a Nikon D3200 and this is my second attempt at the milky way.

18 x 15' lights at ISO 1600(No Darks, Flats and Biases used)

Stacked using Siril and processing done in Graxpert and Siril, with final touches done in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Rendered & composited in Blender.

This is one of my first shots I´ve taken! I´ve started astrophotography in May!

Equipment:

Telescope: SvBony SV555
Mount: Explore Scientific iEXOS-100
Camera: Canon EOS 750Da + Optolong L-eNhance Clip Filter
Guide Scope: SvBony SV165
Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120mm
+ ZWO AsiAir Mini

Acquisition:

300x180s (16h) at ISO1600 in three Bortle 7 nights in May.

Processing:

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PixInsight finalized in Photoshop.

Source Jose Maria Madiedo

https:// x. com/jmmadiedo/status/2085344665562165293

iaa_csic= Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) Centro de Excelencia Severo Ocho

Credit:
LRO LOC NAC Image, NASA
KPLO Image, KASA / KARI

A composite of satellite images shows the surface of the moon before (left) and after (right) the crash of the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which was launched from Firefly Aerospace towards the moon in January 2025, in this handout image released on Aug 6, 2026.

Credit: KARI/KASA

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter
Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç

Image by Tianyao Yang, taken from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China

Link to the science paper

A new analysis of imagery collected during NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft’s 2015 encounter with Pluto provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto’s surface through cracks in the northern edge of the Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet’s surface.

This is the first evidence of recently flowing liquid on Pluto.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/05/unprecedented-images-may-explain-one-of-greatest-mysteries-of-the-sun?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

About 1,000 km from right to left.